Exposing the current state name with ui router

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I m trying to implement a language switcher where if a user clicks on  de  from any given page on an  en  side - it takes them to that page of the  de  side  If I console dir the  state parameter  it exposes the values I d want with the  current  property of the given  state  If I try to console dir the  state current to focus on the values I want  it only gives the parent state property  my current views are nested    My current thinking is  I m on url en content  and dynamically I can then have my lang navigation dynamically load the appropriate destination points into some kind of data attribute  pick those up with a custom directive where I d initiate a  go to  and set my preferedLanguage value per angular-translate   The key issue at the moment is exposing that  state name - again  when simply browsing  state the current object gives the values I d want  but  current state directly only gives the parent state   If anyone has a better suggestion of how to do this  in a angular way - no custom cookie junk  I m happy to take suggestions   Thanks   Update  CODE SAMPLES   Object reference of my states   var urlStates             en                home                    name   home                   url    en                   templateUrl   templates   lang   home html                   abstract   true                             home highlights                    name  home highlights                   url                      templateUrl   templates   lang   home highlights html                             home social                                name   home social                   url    social                   templateUrl   templates   lang   home social html                             home map                                name   home map                   url    map                   templateUrl   templates   lang   home map html                              My States    stateProvider          state urlStates en home           state urlStates en home highlights           state urlStates en home social           state urlStates en home map             locationProvider html5Mode true         Controller    controller  LandingPage   function  translate   state       this state    state      this greeting    Hello         And Lastly  the output I see in the dom   With this state    state          params            current              name    home highlights            url                templateUrl    templates en home highlights html              transition   null     With this state    state current         name            url             views   null       abstract   true

User · Answer

Its just because of the load time angular takes to give you the current state.

If you try to get the current state by using $timeout function then it will give you correct result in $state.current.name

$timeout(function(){
    $rootScope.currState = $state.current.name;
})

User · Answer

I wrapped around  state around  timeout and it worked for me   For example    function        use strict      angular      module  app        controller  BodyController   BodyController      BodyController  inject      state     timeout           ngInject      function BodyController  state   timeout         timeout function          console log  state current

User · Answer

Use Timeout   timeout function      console log  state current   this is working fine       100     See - https   github com angular-ui ui-router issues 1627

User · Answer

In my current project the solution looks like this   I created an abstract Language State   stateProvider state  language         abstract  true      url     language       template    lt div ui-view class  lang-  language    gt  lt  div gt         Every state in the project has to depend on this state   stateProvider state  language dashboard         url    dashboard                   The language switch buttons calls a custom function    lt a ng-click  footer setLanguage  de    gt de lt  a gt    And the corresponding function looks like this  inside a controller of course    this setLanguage   function lang        FooterLog log  switch to language   lang        state go  state current    language  lang              location  true          reload  true          inherit  true        then function             FooterLog log  transition successfull                 This works  but there is a nicer solution just changing a value in the state params from html    lt a ui-sref    language   de     gt de lt  a gt    Unfortunately this does not work  see https   github com angular-ui ui-router issues 1031

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this is how I do it  JAVASCRIPT   var module   angular module  yourModuleName     ui router      module run     rootScope     state     stateParams                         function   rootScope     state     stateParams         rootScope  state    state       rootScope  stateParams    stateParams           HTML    lt pre id  uiRouterInfo  gt         state      state current name          stateParams      stateParams          state full url       state  current url source         lt  pre gt    EXAMPLE   http   plnkr co edit LGMZnj p preview

User · Answer

Answering your question in this format is quite challenging   On the other hand you ask about navigation and then about current  state acting all weird   For the first I d say it s too broad question and for the second I d say    well  you are doing something wrong or missing the obvious      nbsp   Take the following controller   app controller  MainCtrl   function  scope   state       scope state    state        Where app is configured as   app config function  stateProvider       stateProvider      state  main             url    main           templateUrl   main html           controller   MainCtrl              state  main thiscontent             url    thiscontent           templateUrl   this html           controller   ThisCtrl              state  main thatcontent             url    thatcontent           templateUrl   that html                Then simple HTML template having    lt div gt       state   json     lt  div gt    Would  print out  e g  the following        params           current           url     thatcontent         templateUrl    that html         name    main thatcontent            transition   null     I put up a small example showing this  using ui router and pascalprecht translate for the menus  I hope you find it useful and figure out what is it you are doing wrong   Plunker here http   plnkr co edit XIW4ZE   nbsp   Screencap

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